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By cividesk Filed under Training

Cividesk is offering four different on-line training sessions in November focusing on Contacts, Events, Membership and Contribution Management.  Click here for more information on class curriculum, specific dates/time and cost for each session.  Classes are designed for new users or those who are in need of a refresher course.  Email Susan@cividesk.com with any specific questions. 

 

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By alejandro_salgado Filed under Case studies and user stories, CiviCon, Marketing and Promotion, Meetups, Sprints

20+ Sessions were recorded during last CiviCon London 2014 and are now available in CiviCon official website.

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By ErikHommel Filed under Case studies and user stories, Community

My name is Erik Hommel, 51 years old. I live in the Netherlands in a small village called Brummen(between Apeldoorn and Arnhem) with my wife Floor, our 2 youngest children and four Siamese cats. Our 2 oldest kids have either left home or are in the process of doing so. My working career in ICT started in 1988 as an RPG programmer on the IBM S/38.

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By Anonimo Filed under Case studies and user stories
(adapted from “Jumping to Civi Under The Gun”, CiviCon 2014 presentation)   Music Nova Scotia is a non-profit organization that has worked since 1989 with a mandate to encourage the creation, development, growth and promotion of Nova Scotia’s music industry. Music Nova Scotia exists to grow and nurture the Nova Scotia music industry, to retain our own natural resource and promote investment, by:
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By alejandro_salgado Filed under Marketing and Promotion
It's been a year since we started the Partner Marketing Committee, during this year we tried to move forward some initiatives with great effort from all the members of the Committee.  We used $ 6,ooo USD from the Marketing budget for helping partners represent CiviCRM in the following events: 3 additional registrations for NTEN 2014
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By jamie Filed under CiviMail

When generating mailing labels, CiviCRM users have the option of choosing the address to be used (e.g. you can select "Primary," "Home" or "Work") depending on where you want to reach your contacts.

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By colemanw Filed under Release announcements

Here it is, the third stable release of the incredible CIviCRM 4.5 series. This release includes some important fixes, and is recommended for everyone using CiviCRM 4.5.

» Issues fixed in 4.5.2

The LTS team is also putting out 4.4.8 today, which fixes for a regression in 4.4.7 which prevented deleted contacts from showing up in searches.

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By Anonimo Filed under GSoC, Drupal 7, Drupal 8+

As part of the Google Summer of Code, I began work on getting CiviCRM and the upcoming Drupal 8 working together nicely. I made an update about midway through and it's time for another update. I had separated the project into a number of milestones. Phases 1, 2 and 3 dealt with varying aspects of the core CiviCRM module functionality.

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By Anonimo Filed under CiviCase, Drupal 7, Make it happen

A little background.

Established in 1972, we are a non-profit human services organization that serves many diverse populations in the Greater Pittsburgh area.

A large part of our focus is on homeless services, but we also do some mental and physical health programming, early childhood development, community integration and host a large food pantry near the University of Pittsburgh campus. 

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